Criminal Psychology Everything about it.

You can become a criminal psychologist using a number of ways. Obtaining a bachelor’s degree in psychology, criminal justice, criminology or a related field major would be a good start. It will be enough for admission in the most graduate programs. The best way would be to get a BA (Hons) ...

Criminal Psychologists may be employed in a number of settings. Some work as a private consultant, some may be employed full-time in governmental, usually in law enforcement organs, some of them prefer to work part-time at universities or other educational facilities. They work closely with police officers and federal agents ...

Most crime scenes tell a story and just like any story, it has characters, plot, beginning, middle and the conclusion. Investigators are involved in the last part and their work is to understand the dynamics of a crime, which means to analyze and interpret activities of an offender prior to, ...

In order to find the best ways to handle and prevent crime, examining  why do people commit crime is very important. Many theories have appeared and are appearing since beginning of this study seeking to find the best solutions for this problem. Those theories are continuing and will always influence ...

The reasons behind criminal behavior can vary a lot in each particular case, but still they can be grouped in two main categories – genetics and environment. When in the mid 19th century the  question about the causes of criminal behavior was raised, a lot of psychologists were insisting that the ...

The focus of Criminal behavior study is to understand offender better and answer questions like: who criminals are, why do they commit an offence (In order to define ways of preventing criminal), how do they think, what do they do (in order to predict their future actions and assist investigation ...

The term of criminal psychology for most people may associate with Hollywood movies, such as “Silence of the Lambs”. And the criminal psychologist, as we might think, is the person who helps police to catch the offenders, conducting interviews with them and gaining a better insight into the offender’s mind ...

Criminal psychology as an academic discipline was established not so long ago. It was late 19th century when universities started to teach it. But actually methods of offender profiling was used earlier by the investigators. German psychologist Hugo Munsterberg is considered to truly start the criminal psychology, his works from 19th-20th centuries ...

In this part of the article first of all we will seek to explain that every single human being is totally different into criminal activity. Before we continue reviewing this topic we should keep in mind that there are no common rules that can be used to all of the ...

In the process of investigation very often police has to face the challenge of revealing the deception. It is highly probable that suspects and even witnesses lie during interviews, so the police and criminal psychologists need to be capable of detecting deception. There are some common beliefs about the cues ...